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The Fundamentals of Producing High-Quality Technical Documentation with Tina Klein Walsh Senior Manager at Blackberry Qnx Systems

Updated on Dec 11, 2024

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In this week’s episode of the knowledgebase Ninja Podcast, Gowri Ramkumar is joined by Tina Klein Walsh, Senior Manager at BlackBerry QNX Software systems. They discuss Tina’s journey of programming and documentation, the fundamentals of producing high-quality content, and the future of technical documentation

 

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  • Tina started her career in 1986 as an Application Developer (Engineering and Water Works) from the Town of Markham and started working as a C Language Programmer. She worked on programming and development for four years and in 1990, she switched her career into technical documentation and joined Demax Software as a Technical Writer
  • Tina’s expertise in software programming and understanding of technology products served as a star to her technical writer career. Consequently, she has been contributing her part to the technical content curation industry for more than three decades now
    Currently, she is working as a Senior Manager at BlackBerry QNX Systems
  • Tina thinks that managing technical writers and documentation workflow are the two most crucial fundamentals of producing quality documentation.
  • She believes that we humans build up technology, not robots. So, by paying due attention to details; humans can define the technical aspect of any product better than anyone else.
  • At BlackBerry QNX Tina’s team is responsible primarily for creating API documentation. Tina believes that technology integration streamlines the documentation workflow and that documentation reviews serve as the heart of content creations. Therefore, she dedicates most of her time to innovation and reviewing domains.
  • She loves working with BlackBerry QNX, which is a software development platform. She appreciates the fact that there are only a few software development platforms available, and people have limited knowledge about it. Hence, the technical documentation role is the key for BlackBerry to explain the differentiation aspect of its products
  • Tina believes that in 2022 and the years to come, with technological advancement and evolution constantly on the rise, there would be an immense demand for technical writers. She shares that BlackBerry QNX plans to recruit approx. two thousand technical writers
    Furthermore, Tina shares her excitement of meeting new writers, training, mentoring and coaching them
  • Tina’s biggest influence
    Mark Baker – English animator and producer. Tina shares that Mark Baker is the most important person that helped her in learning technical documentation

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Gowri Ramkumar

Meet Gowri Ramkumar, our Vice President of Sales at Document360.With a background in product testing, her innate curiosity about the business side of things fueled a remarkable transition into Sales at Document360. Beyond the boardroom, Gowri is a captivating storyteller with a penchant for the written word. Her writing prowess shines in precisely crafted pieces on Knowledge Base, customer onboarding, customer success, and user documentation. Adding another dimension to her career, she is the voice behind the popular podcast, "Knowledge Base Ninjas." Here, she immerses herself in the world of technical writing and fostering a vibrant community around the art of knowledge creation.

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